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Originally Posted by egill
Tour 2 "may be" coming out during the holidays. It will have Wifi and a trackpad to replace the trackball.
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Definitely not a chance. The tour was just released a few months ago. They have fixed the trackball issues many have experienced, so if you have a Tour and your trackball jams, just call Sprint or Verizon and do a warranty exchange. The new one shouldn't have any of those issues.
As far as the Bold 9700 (the new one T-Mobile is releasing in like two weeks and AT&T will get a few weeks later) goes, it is also a worldwide device. The Tour is a CDMA/GSM hybrid (because Sprint and Verizon use CDMA). The Bold is simply a GSM device (AT&T and T-Mobile use GSM). Once you go overseas you're going to be relying on GSM anyway. CDMA is really only used in North America.
If you're interested in MotoBLUR at all, wait for the Calgary to come out on VZW in a few months. It'll be a "lower-end" device than the Droid, however it will have Motorola's sweet social networking integration.
http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/...ndroid-device/
There's also the Droid Eris (It's really an HTC Hero, VZW just renamed it). I've heard few to no complaints about that device, and the user interface is absolutely incredible. It's also based on Android.
As for the iPhone coming to Verizon, don't hold your breath. Apple doesn't want to be bothered with CDMA, because then they need to have two different iPhones, or they'd have to put SEVERAL radios into the device, which would be a pain in the ass. It may come to Verizon once they start rolling out their LTE network and we start seeing decent coverage in about two years. Even if Verizon AND Sprint were given the iPhone, it's drops in the pail compared to the international audience they have with it.
Also realize that Verizon's current "Our 3G network is 5 times as big as AT&T's!" is extremely misleading. Verizon's entire network technically qualifies as 3G, even though it's still mostly 1xRTT, which is a technology that delivers data speeds in line with AT&T's 2G network. So, technically they have much more 3G coverage, but they have about the same high-speed coverage as AT&T. Basically, it's about which carrier has better coverage where you are. For instance, when I'm on campus the best coverage by FAR is T-Mobile. When I'm home the best is Nextel (Note that even though Sprint OWNS the Nextel network, they are two completely different networks).